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Zaha Hadid

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Zaha Hadid was born in 1950 in Iraq, a major industrialist family. Already in the 11 years Zaha became carried away by the architecture. Since childhood, she had the opportunity to travel freely around the world, travel and take pictures architectural wonders of the world. At 22, she began studying at the Architectural Association in London. In 30 years, Zaha Hadid founded his own architectural firm Zaha Hadid Architects.

For ten years, Zaha Hadid Architects has participated in a variety of prestigious architectural competitions, offers the option of construction of the inhabited bridge over the Thames, an inverted skyscraper to the English city of Leicester and the club at the top of the mountain in Hong Kong. Zaha designed the opera house in Cardiff, Center for Contemporary Art in Ohio and Rome. These and other projects bring her to victory in the prestigious architectural competitions, interest and enthusiasm by the press and notoriety in architectural circles. But despite all this, customers are not ready to accept work Zaha Hadid, they have a negative attitude to its unconventional design. Only in 1991 Zaha started the implementation of its first project. They became part of the fire company Vitra. And already in 1997, after the project of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum building was built in Bilbao, Zaha Hadid's ideas become really popular.

The world originated a new fashion now popular architecture in deconstruction style.

Now Zaha Hadid is considered the most famous architect woman in the world. She has a lot of interesting and famous architectural sites such as:

- Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

- Railway station Hoenheim - North and parking, Strasbourg, France

- Ordrupgaard Art Museum : a new wing, Copenhagen, Denmark

- Science Center "Phaeno", Wolfsburg, Germany

- The central building BMW plant in Leipzig, Germany

- National Museum of XXI Century Arts - the MAXXI, Rome, Italy and others.

In addition to the architecture of Zaha Hadid is interested in interior design, she developed the futuristic furniture lighting, and even a collection of women's shoes. She also gives lectures and master classes all over the world, each time collecting the full audience. Having world - famous Zaha Hadid does not hesitate to demand huge fees for their projects, its revenue in the millions of dollars per year. Who Zakho Hadid employs more than 100 people, 56 of which is an upscale design professionals and architects, the other various types of employees, managers, consultants, experts in public relations.